Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)

Over the past year, conflict in the Middle East has devastated lives across the region, and millions have fled their homes in search of safety.

Right now, millions of people across Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region are in urgent need of food, shelter and medical care.

In Gaza, people are dying of hunger and disease,1 as well as injuries caused by the conflict. Food and clean water are desperately scarce. Ninety percent of the population are displaced, and more than 42,000 people have been killed.

In Lebanon, more than a million people have had to leave their homes in recent weeks. Shelters are overwhelmed, and hospitals are struggling to treat the thousands of people injured.

DEC member charities are responding right now in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank, providing lifesaving food, water, shelter, medicine and so much more.

They are ready to act wherever the needs are greatest, and as the humanitarian crisis evolves across the region.

But they urgently need more funds to meet the huge levels of need. Start fundraising today.

Two years on from the escalation of conflict in Ukraine, the DEC's appeal has raised £426 million and helped an estimated 6.9 million people in Ukraine and neighbouring countries.

As the conflict has worn on, the humanitarian crisis has continued to evolve. DEC charities have responded to new developments in Ukraine over the past two years, from keeping people safe and warm last winter when Ukraine’s power infrastructure was attacked to delivering aid in newly accessible areas when the frontline has shifted. Your donations also helped people forced to leave their homes when the Kakhovka dam was breached in June 2023.

DEC charities and their local partners also continue to support refugees in Poland, Romania, Moldova and Hungary. Recently, they have focused on cash payments that allow people to buy what they need, and help families in Ukraine with the cost of hosting people displaced from other parts of the country.